PVC pipe manufacturing · Texas

CANTEX INC.-Injection Molding

Mineral Wells, TX · ~147 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

CANTEX INC.-Injection Molding runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical PVC pipe manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

CANTEX INC.-Injection Molding: 3.5 TCR = 107% of PVC pipe manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CANTEX INC.-Injection Molding safety composite

CANTEX INC.-Injection Molding scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−5.8

2023→2024

CANTEX INC.-Injection Molding injury rate improved

CANTEX INC.-Injection Molding's TCR fell 5.8 from 6.4 in 2023 to 0.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.4 · 2024=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326122 · Mineral Wells, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 107% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #29/45
  • PHOTO Waverly
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~147 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Waverly (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Texas employers → · Look up another →

CANTEX INC.-Injection Molding in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows CANTEX INC.-Injection Molding averages 3.5 TCR (107% of the PVC pipe manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

CANTEX INC.-Injection Molding TCR series: 2023=6.4 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where CANTEX INC.-Injection Molding falls in its industry

332 PVC pipe manufacturing establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 45 PVC pipe manufacturing employers in Texas.

CANTEX INC.-Injection Molding (147 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate CANTEX INC.-Injection Molding
CANTEX INC.-Injection Molding (147 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7

CANTEX INC.-Injection Molding has more employees than the PVC pipe manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2023 6.4 6.4 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326122 · TX · Mineral Wells

332 PVC pipe manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 35 employers in Mineral Wells, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Waverly 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Uponor - Lakeville 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Endurance Poly Producers 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Performance Pipe - Reno Plant 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lubbock, TX-PS 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE First in Rescue, Safety & Training, LLC 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE Infrastructure 35 Capital 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE IOC Company LLC 147 FTE
CITY-NEAR Filtration : Mineral Wells 423 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Pinto General Hospital 397 FTE
CITY-NEAR PECOFacet - Mineral Wells 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 804 350 FTE
NAT-TCR Ocala 10290 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Evansville 10614 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Indianapolis 10146 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Grace Pacific LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE HoneywellNY15 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Windsor Cypress Gardens 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valley Packaging Industries, Inc. 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE The TSP Solution 147 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.